Morning journal and courier., 1887-03-15
CELEBRATED CLOCKS.
Marvels of Horology Made by Gun
 ming and IngenIous Hands.

MI afVeIS 0f E1OfOlO&y H a0e DY Cun
 ming and Ingenious Hands.
 IF. G. Mather in the Popular Science Monthly.l
 Another King of Spain came to Geneva to see a clock which had been made by Droz, merchant of that city. Upon the clock were seated a shepherd, a negro and dog. As the hour was struck the shepherd played upon his flute and the dog played gently at his feet. But when the king reached forth to touch an apple that hung from tree un- der which the shepherd rested. the dog flew at him and parked so furiously that live dog answered him, and the whole party left in haste. Venturing to return, one of the courtiers asked the negro in Spanish what time it was. There was no reply, but when the question was repeated in French an an- swer was given. This frightened the cour- tier, who rejoined his companions, and all of them voted that the clock was the work of the evil one.
 We are told of strange clock that is said to have belonged to Hindoo prince. A large gong was hung on poles near the dial, and all about upon the ground lay pile of artificial human heads, ribs, legs and arms. The whole number of bones in the pile was equal to the number of bones in twelve per feet bodies, but the pile appeared to have been thrown together in the greatest confu- sion. ''When the hands of the clock indica- ted the hour of one, out from the pile crawled first the number of parts needed to form the frame of one man, part coming to part with quick click; and when completed the figure sprang up, seized mallet, and walking up to the gong, struck one blow. This done he returned to the pile and fell to pieces again. When two o'clock came two men arose and did likewise; and st the hours of noon and midnight the entire heap sprang up and marching to the gong, struck one af ter another his blow, making twelve in all; then returning, fell to pieces before."
 A clock made by Parisian consists mere iy of glass dial and two hands, which are balanced each with ball on the other side of the center. These balls are only about an inch in diameter, and yet they contain all the machinery that turns the hands about. The back of the dial is perfectly smooth surface. You may turn the hands round and round with your cane, and when you let them alone they will swing back and forth for awhile, and then they will stop at exactly the right spot to show the true time. A clock in Brussels is so placed over a chim- ney or pipe through which the air goes up- ward that the draught keeps it wound up all the time.
 The most remarkable clock in America, if we consider the place in which it was built, is the one that was made by miner in the Hallenback colliery at Wilkesbarre, Pa. This clock WAS made out of bits of board and iron, and with the toughest tools that can be imagined. It was made nearly half mile underground, and it occupied the maker nine years befere he could say it was done. The clock is about nine feet high and there are sixty-three figures that move by machin- cry. There only twenty-two moving fig ures in the Strasburg clock. On the front of the Wilkesbarre clock-the one we are speak ing of-there are three shslves or balconies. Along the lower balcony mounted general leads 8 file of Continental soldiers. The liberty bell rings and a sentinel salutes the procession. A door in the upper balcony opens and shows Molly Pitcher, who fires her historic cannon, the smoke of which is blown away from the interior of the clock by a fan. Then the portraits of the first twen- ty Presidents of the United States pass along ill a kind of panorama, the Declaration of Independence being held aloft by Thomas Jefferson. On another of the balconies the twelve apostles go by; Satan comes out and the cock crows for the benefit of Peter. When Christ appears figure of Justice raises pair of scales, while figure of Death tolls the minutes upon bell.